Who do not wash their hands during the Covid-19 pandemic? Social media use as a potential predictor
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Abstract
This study predicts handwashing behavior during the Covid-19 pandemic. An analysis of 674 adults in Malaysia identifies their time spent on social media per day as a key predictor of handwashing. The association between time spent on social media and handwashing substantially depends on gender and the number of children in the same household. Additional predictors include age and health condition. This study helps identify specific target groups for health communication on hand hygiene via people’s use of social media, which can be a key channel for health communication campaigns during a pandemic.
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SciScore for 10.1101/2020.06.01.20119230: (What is this?)
Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
Table 1: Rigor
Institutional Review Board Statement not detected. Randomization not detected. Blinding not detected. Power Analysis not detected. Sex as a biological variable not detected. Table 2: Resources
No key resources detected.
Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:4.1 Limitations: First, the cross-sectional nature of our research precludes claims of causality, even though we are primarily interested in the predictive utility for screening less compliant groups. Second, self-reported …
SciScore for 10.1101/2020.06.01.20119230: (What is this?)
Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
Table 1: Rigor
Institutional Review Board Statement not detected. Randomization not detected. Blinding not detected. Power Analysis not detected. Sex as a biological variable not detected. Table 2: Resources
No key resources detected.
Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:4.1 Limitations: First, the cross-sectional nature of our research precludes claims of causality, even though we are primarily interested in the predictive utility for screening less compliant groups. Second, self-reported compliance rates might be inflated due to social desirability [14], so our estimation of the less compliant groups is conservative. Third, we tried to get a representative sample via two-stage stratified sampling in terms of ethnicity, gender, age, and geographical area, but Malaysia is a multi-facet society and the sample should not strictly be considered nationally representative. Fourth, social media usage was very high during the COVID-19 pandemic in Malaysia due to a lockdown, and future studies may examine our model in lesser pandemics without strict lockdowns. Finally, Malaysia is an upper-middle income-level country, where water for handwashing is generally accessible. Studies in countries with heterogeneous individual access to water might yield different results. 4.2 Conclusion: We identify several new predictors of handwashing during a pandemic to enable health organizations, governments, and others to create more targeted communication campaigns, particularly via social media. Such campaigns might be particularly important because social media is likely used extensively during epidemics but most normal social media posts during a pandemic contain very little practical advice.[17] This study contributes by identifying less compliant groups regard...
Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
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